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The purpose of this article is to assist the beginner fly fishing. The terminology and the basic practice used in fly fishing may be unfamiliar to the beginner at fly fishing, so we will start from the very beginning. Therefore, if you are a beginner fly fishing person, please read on in order to become acquainted with fly fishing.

The things required for fly fishing are generally known as tackle, but if you want to be more specific about the type of instruments you need, you can tack on the words “fly fishing”. Therefore, we use the phrase: “fly fishing tackle”. Fly fishing tackle, or gear, fundamentally consists of artificial flies, a fly rod, a fly reel and fly line. The way it works is: the fly is attached to the line, which is wound around the reel, which is attached to the rod or pole, which is used to cast the fly or other bait.

To make it easier to cast the fly as far as required from the angler, the line has to be a little weightier than the other types of fishing line, because a weight is used in other forms of fishing to get the same result. Also, the artificial flies are made in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colours to look like real, live flies, depending on the sort of fish the angler wants to catch.

Generally speaking, the artificial fly is made of hair, plastic, feathers, fabric, fur and other materials in order to make the lure as closely resemble as possible the insect or fly most commonly eaten by the particular species of fish at that particular month or time of the day. This means that each fishing spot requires that you select a certain type of artificial fly that will look like the insects living in the area where your desired type of fish frequent. Therefore, a kind of fly used in one part of the region may not be as successful as you’d think in another.

However, there are classifications of flies too, although they fall into two basic general categories, which are known as ‘attractive’ and ‘imitative’. The imitative artificial flies resemble real flies, while the attractive flies just rely on colour or the reflection of sunlight in order to attract fish without necessarily resembling|looking like] the fish’s natural food.

Further sub-classifications are then used to sub-divide artificial fly fishing lures into: a] dry (imitating grasshoppers, dragonflies, etc. which float on or near the surface of the water); b] sub-surface (looking like larvae, pupae) and c] wet (resembling leeches and minnows and other small fish or fry).

The main distinguishing feature between fly fishing and non-fly fishing is that fly fishing depends to a great extent on the weight of the line to get the artificial fly to that area of the stream where the fish are located, probably at a distance from the bank. The line is often camouflaged and hollow, so that it will float.

Non-fly fishing depends rather on the attached weight, often made of lead, to draw the line off the reel and carry it forward to the right spot, where the weight will also take the bait or lure down to the feeding fish.

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